CONSEQUENTIAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does consequential mean? 

• CONSEQUENTIAL (adjective)
  The adjective CONSEQUENTIAL has 1 sense:

1. having important issues or results

  Familiarity information: CONSEQUENTIAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONSEQUENTIAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having important issues or results

Synonyms:

consequential; eventful

Context example:

an eventful decision

Similar:

important; of import (of great significance or value)

Derivation:

consequence (having important effects or influence)

 Context examples 

“However, my”—he pulled himself up and coughed in a consequential way—“my financial agent has arranged for a loan, repayable upon the King’s death.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“We’re hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see,” said Jones in his consequential way.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Catherine was the immediate object of his gallantry; and, while they waited in the lobby for a chair, he prevented the inquiry which had travelled from her heart almost to the tip of her tongue, by asking, in a consequential manner, whether she had seen him talking with General Tilney: He is a fine old fellow, upon my soul!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The subjection in which his father had brought him up had given him originally great humility of manner; but it was now a good deal counteracted by the self-conceit of a weak head, living in retirement, and the consequential feelings of early and unexpected prosperity.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Anisindione interferes with the vitamin K-dependent hepatic synthesis of active clotting factors by inhibiting the reduction of vitamin K. This leads to an inhibition of gamma-carboxylation of glutamic acid residues to gamma-carboxyglutamic acid in clotting factors II, VII, IX and X. The consequential effects of this inhibition include a reduced activity of these clotting factors and prolonged blood clotting time.

(Anisindione, NCI Thesaurus)

Why, said a loud, consequential man from immediately behind me, speaking with a broad western burr, vrom what I’ve zeen of this young Gloucester lad, I doan’t think Harrison could have stood bevore him for ten rounds when he vas in his prime.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)